Organs for Transplantation Must Be from Living
By Paul A. Byrne, M.D.
Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) devoted four pages to vital organ transplantation (8/19/2012), mostly in promotion of organ “donation.
By Paul A. Byrne, M.D.
Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) devoted four pages to vital organ transplantation (8/19/2012), mostly in promotion of organ “donation.
You’ve probably seen TV commercials, billboards, and magazine articles encouraging you to give the “gift of life” through vital organ donation.
Since 1968, vital organs, necessary for life, have been removed from patients for transplantation. Since then, this has been morally justified by the claim that the donor is “brain dead” or has suffered “cardiac death.”